Fig. 1. Throughout the essay I use images from the series Tabula Rasa (2001–16) by the Minsk photographer and artist Sergei Zhdanovich, who accompanied his series with the following description: “An empty billboard may become an esthetic construct when we care to reflect on its significance
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... Reich using the concept of stasis to unpack the social, historical, political, and visual tensions that structure these images’ depiction of their black German subjects. Viewing these images as complex depictions of stasis (defined not as the cessation of movement but as motion held in suspension and a...

...Cesare Casarino Abstract This essay investigates the absent presence of Baruch Spinoza’s thought in Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image and argues that the concept of expression—as articulated by Deleuze in his study on Spinoza, Expressionism in Philosophy...

... suggest that the matter on
which the dossier informs is that of the cinematic image from the
1960s forward. Four of the ﬁ ve essays off er extended analyses of cin-
ematic images of a particular contemporary ﬁ lmmaker: Rei Terada
on repletion and totality in Masao Adachi’s landscape ﬁ lms, Damon...

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saint is completely affected and absorbed by the image of Christ in
the form of the seraph.
The stigmata are the exemplary figure of the effect of the con-
templated image and, I would add, an example of a particular form
of medieval devotional practice that makes the...

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temporary social and cultural theory— Spinoza represents a well-
spring. Even if many seventeenth- century authors reﬂ ected on the
imaginary and image- mediated nature of political relationships,
particularly in the connection between politics and religion, few
did so as thoroughly and...

... of gazes, images
and material objects.' Yet, almost all of Benjamin's texts were pub-
lished in the absence of those images to which he implicitly or
explicitly referred; the visual citations have been excluded. This is
true of the earlier and later editions of his texts, as well as of his...

...," when read
adjectivally, yields an image of freedom as lasting and durable,
when read as a progressive verb form, "enduring" evokes the per-
spectives of all those victims who from this point on will be forced
to endure the violent implementation of "freedom" as the Bush...

... ability if somewhat crosswise inten-
tions," if we are to complete our caption and complicate our
understanding of precisely what is at stake in this image. Because
in collapsing the framer's "snapshot" into his own "performance
still," Thomas highlights the visual conceits that underpin both...

..., before she became a drawn ﬁ gure, she directed at her treacher-
ous husband, Jason. The title, Medea as Mutant, explained enough, or
so I thought. I approached to examine the white dots that covered
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the image, there as if to protect the ﬁ gure...

... him had oc-
casionally published paintings and drawings of their patients, ana-
lyzing them for purposes of psychiatric diagnosis, Prinzhorn found
that he could not identify the mental disorders of inmates from
the types of images they made. Prinzhorn had first gotten a degree
in art...

... and Portugal in Europe
and the Americas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Jaeggi, Rahel. Alienation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Jonsson, Stefan. Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of
the Masses from Revolution to Fascism. New York...

.... By
offering an alternate reading of Chapter Five of Black Skin, White
Masks, I aim to demonstrate that the "Black image" and the "White
image" are inherently problematic and I suggest avenues for re-
thinking the Black image in terms of the spatio-temporal relations
it makes visible.15
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... attempt to manage that crisis.2 We ask: How does
the “Thanks to Berkeley . . .” campaign endeavor to manage un-
derrepresented minorities through their images? How does it mar-
ket a facile multiculturalism while failing to practice the difﬁ cult,
messy, complex, disorderly, and...